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Farmers’ market or grocery store? UNG professor explores complexities of food choices in new documentary
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A variety of produce is for sale at Shook's Family Farm's tent during the Gainesville Farmers Market in downtown Gainesville on Friday, June 14, 2019. - photo by Austin Steele
Growing and selling food that doesn’t harm the environment isn’t as simple as omitting pesticides and setting up shop at a farmers’ market. Benjamin Garner, assistant professor of management in the Mike Cottrell College of Business at the University of North Georgia, decided to explore the intricacy of local farming by tapping into one of the nation’s agricultural hotspots, Kansas.